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HEREDITY AND EVOLUTION IN PLANTS 



Lamarckiana their cordate character. I call this form 

 O. IcevifoHa." 



"When I first discovered them (1887) they were repre- 

 sented by very few individuals. Moreover each form 

 occupied a particular spot on the field. O. brevistylis 

 occurred quite close to the base from which the (Enothera 



FIG. 61. Lamarck's evening-primrose ((Enothera Lamarckiana). A muta- 

 ting species. Cf. Fig. 62. (After de Vries.) 



had spread; O. lavifolia on the other hand, in a small 

 group of 10 to 12 plants, some of which were flowering 

 whilst others consisted only of radical leaves, in a part of 

 the field which had not up to that time been occupied by 

 O. Lamarckiana. The impression produced was that all 

 these plants had come from the seeds of a single mutant. 



